page_title: Les Chants de Maldoror
hierarchical_section_title: Les Chants de Maldoror
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Couverture de l'édition originale du PREMIER CHANT des Chants de Maldoror, publié anonymement par Isidore Ducasse en août 1868 à Paris chez l'imprimeur [Gustave] Balitout, Questroy et Cie.
context_page_description: Les Chants de Maldoror is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse. The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of Maldoror, a figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality.
  Although obscure at the time of its initial publication, Maldoror was rediscovered and championed by the Surrealist artists during the early twentieth century. The work's transgressive, violent, and absurd themes are shared in common with much of Surrealism's output; in particular, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Philippe Soupault were influenced by the work. Maldoror was itself influenced by earlier gothic literature of the period, including Lord Byron's Manfred, and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.
context_section_description: Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem.  It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.  The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of Maldoror, a figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality.
  Although obscure at the time of its initial publication, Maldoror was rediscovered and championed by the Surrealist artists during the early twentieth century.  The work's transgressive, violent, and absurd themes are shared in common with much of Surrealism's output; in particular, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Philippe Soupault were influenced by the work.  Maldoror was itself influenced by earlier gothic literature of the period, including Lord Byron's Manfred, and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.
caption: Cover of the first French edition
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